In a city where dreams are deadly, only one girl has the power to end the nightmare. Too bad the monsters got to her first.
When the Mara come, they take everything: hope, desire, the ability to feel . . . the will to defy. Haunted teen Cole's earliest memories are of learning to wield isolation as a shield, repress emotions, surrender doubts, and, above all, obey without question.
But all the training in the Towers of Refuge wasn't enough to save Cadence, the mischievous child who now haunts her-and it won't be enough to save Cole when the Mara come for her.
Because Cole has a secret-and she's not the only one.
Ghosts. Rebels. Dreamwalkers. Cole's boring, sheltered world will never be the same again-and neither will she.
With enforcers in pursuit and the dead invading her dreams, she'll have to find her way from the dazzling, forbidden heights of the tower to the glittering menace of the underground club lurking below the surface of the floodwaters in a desperate bid to stop the dying before the nightmares eat her alive.
Claim your fears. Own your failure. Keep fighting.
A not-quite-alive girl and her not-quite-dead ghost discover trusted authorities lie, allies have their own agendas and even the monsters wear masks in a journey of betrayal, revenge, and finding the power to fight back. Page Turner Award shortlisted YA dystopian dark fantasy for ages 14 and up with echoes of This Savage Song, Places No One Knows, and The Masque of the Red Death for fans of Brenna Yovanoff, Laini Taylor, Victoria Schwab, and Melissa Marr.
Perfect for those who love:
- ghosts, paranormal/supernatural powers & creatures of myth
- monsters & magic
- deeply unreliable narrators
- prickly outcasts and loners
- devious & dazzling revolutionaries
- repressive dystopian regimes & glittering gothic excess for futuristic ecopunk urban fantasy like you've never seen before
- girls finding their voices & taking back their choices
- all the gore
Read this Halloween-ready atmospheric and twisty YA gothic-dystopian fantasy hit named a Barnes & Noble Press "20 Favorite Indie Books of 2018" title today!
Wiggins, K. a.: - K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) is an award-winning Canadian speculative fiction author, speaker, and creative educator known for the celebrated ecopunk/Climate Fiction meets gothic-dystopian YA Dark Fantasy series Threads of Dreams.She writes across fantasy, science fiction, and horror subgenres (often within the same work) for readers of all ages, exploring the tangled webs of society, environment, and identity through intricate, dreamlike tales of monsters and magic.She has been published by Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Mysterion, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, The NoSleep Podcast, Renaissance Press, Hungry Shadow Press, and Virgibooks (in translation), among others, and is the president of the Children's Writers & Illustrators of British Columbia Society (CWILL BC), a member of The Writers' Union of Canada (+CSFFA & CVWS), and teaches internationally with the Creative Writing for Children Society (CWC) from her home in the Comox Valley, BC. Learn more at kawiggins.com
